i might do a few more 'generic' male/female orthos in different styles, just to give people some leeway.
I used to hate doing orthos, but this was kind of fun. that's what i wanted to capture, anyway-the woman certainly isn't today's idea of body beautiful, but i think both these have a great deal of classic charm.
so rant all you want about what exactly that says about feminine ideal proportions to an illustrator at his height in the 1940's. I would just like to point out that Loomis is the one that chose to do the female proportion study with her wearing high heels, this isn't my doing. still not perfect, but i figure it's a damn sight better that trying to model off the original drawings.
i tried to keep as faithful to his style and linework as possible, but i had to make many of my own adjustments, mostly to get a nice neutral pose (and fix his crazy monkey arms). So anyhow, i figured as a nice little freebie to one and all who would like a decent orthographic for ideal (if slightly "classic") male and females, i took the time to clean up and fix the Loomis male and female proportion studies into orthographics. it's a great proportions study, but Loomis never intended those figure drawings as modeling guides. The only trouble is, while i was recommending this to Abhishek, i was struck once again at the image's inadequacy as an ortho. Scott Ruggels has anything to do about it ). Particularly this classic drawing, whom i'm sure many of you have used at some point for either reference or as an ortho (especially if Mr. While checking in on Abhishek's workflow improvement thread and thinking about tips i could give him about proportions and making orthographics for characters, i dug up Andrew Loomis' figure drawing book Figure Drawing For All It's Worth on fineart.sk.
there will be more enviro destructo and concept tagging, but today i did something a little different. Don't worry, i'm still working on my other projects.
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